Medidas de Gestao das Pescarias Marinhas e Aquicultura 2019 The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018 | Page 137

THE STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE 2018 BOX 12 2016–2017 MARGARITA LIZÁRRAGA MEDAL The FAO Margarita Lizárraga Medal is awarded every two years to a person or organization that has served with distinction in the promotion and application of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. In 2016– 2017, the award was given to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in recognition of its outstanding, practical, tangible, sustainable and catalytic contribution to the conservation and management of marine living resources in the convention area (the Southern Ocean). In particular, CCAMLR was recognized for its precautionary and ecosystem-based approach to balancing environmental conservation with the rational utilization of resources. This achievement is considered as a model for similar initiatives and could have a catalytic effect on other RFBs. The CCAMLR Secretariat is based in Tasmania, Australia. FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva presents the Margarita Lizárraga Medal to Monde Mayekiso, Chair of CCAMLR „ „ decision-making based on “best available knowledge”, including both scientific and traditional knowledge, with promotion of risk assessment and risk management, and recognition that in the absence of detailed scientific knowledge decisions must still be taken; „ „ focus on sustainabilit y issues that need attention, identified and prioritized through a formal participator y process (e.g. risk assessment); „ „ reliance on a formal management plan developed for a specific area or system with operationally defined boundaries; „ „ an adaptive management process that includes mechanisms for feedback loops at different time scales to adjust the management plan based on past and present obser vations and experiences; „ „ building on existing management institutions and practices. In addition, the g uidelines in support of implementation of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries are all relevant to the application of EA F/EA A. Key features of the ecosystem approach to fisheries and aquaculture The key features of the EA F/EA A framework, as proposed in the FAO g uidelines for both fisheries and aquaculture, are characteristic of a participator y risk-based management process adapted to the fisheries and aquaculture sectors and include: „ „ wide stakeholder participation at all levels of planning and implementation; „ „ comprehensive and explicit consideration of all key components of a fisher y or aquaculture system (ecological, social, economic and governance) as well as external drivers (e.g. climate change); „ „ reconciliation of environmental/conser vation and social/economic management objectives, including explicit consideration of trade-offs between them; Full implementation of EA F/EA A entails establishing a management cycle that includes initial planning, implementation and feedback | 121 |